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Good thing there's tools now to make a static image move.

Concerning C-64 (and maybe other types), I've seen places online that will take donated manuals and such in decent condition for preservation purposes. You know, back when you actually bought a box that had the disk as well as maps and books to go along with the game.

As far as old electronics itself, best bet is to try to give it away via Craigslist or local posting, but it's hit or miss on if someone is going to happen to need that stick of RAM at the same time. It should be recycled if you can't get rid of it, as there are toxic things in circuit boards (small amounts, but still).

It's a race to the bottom. So far The Onion is doing a great job, but reality is so much better at this.

I'm convinced the AI models ran across the "best place to test is in production" joke in training and thought it was a valid process.

I mean, it is a valid process. You will get far faster results that way than on a test server.

Many of the sites which operate age verification services say they do not retain ID, videos or images required for them to carry out age checks for any longer than necessary.

Pinky promise?

How about I just pay for a good VPN that isn't under your finger and avoid a "oops, somehow these IDs got leaked" crisis.

"But then how are we supposed to know what you're doing?"

Exactly.

Those driving simulators where you can adjust the reaction time to show how someone impaired would react are scary. And that's just reaction time, a drunk/exhausted person may not even realize how off they are so everything is fine to them.

Good news is that it won't be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren't actively maintained.

"More satellites!"

Maybe the overall idea isn't a great one.

It's a good idea, since Lemmy and the rest are being searched through by Google and others. However one of the things often discussed is how hard it is to find things on the search engines that have been pulled from Lemmy, so we're not quite seen yet as a database resource for AI and such. But again, better to start now, as Fediverse places are being mentioned more and more by the mainstream.

The question is, how best to do this, and which data? Just personal, or try to obscure anything you submit in discussion?

The problems with CO2 traps aside from them emitting yet more CO2 (every bit counts) is that it's something you have to constantly resupply, most of the CO2 is wasted because of how it works, wind can affect its performance, and it uses energy, so isn't all that passive. Attacking the larvae stage in various ways is a better method. And of course reducing or eliminating any standing water where they can breed, although there are species that use damp soil.

There are probably things created in supernova explosions that we couldn't think about creating due to the energy required, but like our manmade ones, they decay very quickly so we'd never know of their existence. So as far as stability, the periodic chart is probably pretty much complete.

I think with a few changes it would be a better movie. Less screaming, a bit of a different ending and who survives. There's some good parts though. I've seen people complain that the one scene with the birds is convenient and forced to make Cruise's character important, but the soldiers were busy trying to get people out of the place and wouldn't have necessarily noticed what he did. Note that once they understood, they took action. Also RIP the one guy who almost made it.